INTERNATIONAL: North Sea Nexus

The
proud role of telling Englishmen that Germany is out for naval parity
with them in the North Sea fell last week to that astute young scion of
Prussia's old nobility, monocled Joachim von Ribbentrop who, after
coming unscathed through the War as a swank Torgau Hussar, was briefly
reduced to selling whiskey.

Blond, virile, a superb horseman, good tennis player and keen at bridge,
Whiskey Salesman von Ribbentrop shortly recouped his fortunes by
marrying, in 1920, Fräulein Anna Henkell. daughter of a German maker
of champagne which Son-in-Law von Ribbentrop proceeded...